Frictionless Business Ecosystems

We had an excellent session with the leadership team from Citrix Labs just prior to Christmas, in which we shared technology futures and plans for capitalising on emerging trends over the next five years. Our common goals are to bring together some of the best ideas and the R&D execution to create something new and [...]

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In what is most likely my last post of the calendar year I decided to provide a very quick summary of some of our 2009 highlights.
Actually, we did not achieve all that we wanted to this year. There were a few very significant industry engagement projects that we put a lot of effort into that [...]

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The cloud computing movement is at the peak of Gartner’s Hype Cycle curve right now.  This indicates two obvious things (and maybe much more besides): 1. Everyone has something to say about or to sell related to cloud computing, and 2. The phrase ‘cloud computing’ is about to descend steeply into the Trough of Disillusionment, [...]

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I cannot think of a single legitimate industry that would not benefit themselves and the ‘greater good’ (by virtue of efficiency gains, social benefits and ‘greenness’, for example) by streamlining processes and practices through enhanced technology and/or transactional standards.  But, there seem to be many business ecosystems that are retarded in such advances due to [...]

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One of the most confronting experiences for a senior IT or business manager must be the failure of a major business computing system for which they are responsible.  This is even more intense if such a system is a live service for thousands of customers, like an online banking or trading system.  Or in the [...]

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In our collective experience at NICTA, one of the challenges we see in industry is the ability of a (usually large) business to respond to ‘unusual’ changes in its environment in real-time.  By ‘unusual’ I don’t mean that the changes are necessarily uncommon or rare.  What I’m referring to are those threats or opportunities to [...]

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To communicate a vision of research and industry engagement for our team and,
To provide a forum for exploring and addressing real-world industry challenges in our field.

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